Ubuntu 9.10: network-manager – openvpn – “vpn service failed to start”
In Network Manager, under VPN Connections, when I select my “openvpn” connection I get this error message:
The vpn connection ‘openvpn’ failed because the VPN service failed to start.
1. What I have tried so far:
Reading through the Ubuntu forums, and searching Google, it seems many people are having this problem. It also doesn’t appear to be a new problem (although I did not experience it in Ubuntu 9.04).
I tried to remove openvpn and network-manage-openvpn packages and to add them again and to create new connection profiles.
To fix this problems:
Apparently the following method has worked for some, can anyone confirm?
- In the VPN settings, uncheck the option “Available to all users”
- Enable MPPE
Doing so will apparently solve the issue. I have not yet tested this.
Solution 1:
Install the package network-manager-pptp
The command would be: sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
Then it should work as has been reported in the comments section.
Solution 2:
Edit your /etc/network/interfaces file.
Change it from this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
To this:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
This has also been reported to work for some.
Referal by Mac OS X, Ubuntu 32bit, CentOS
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